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  • cant get displacement to work

    Posted by Kutterup on May 13, 2005 at 3:30 am

    i need some help getting my displacement effect to work. ive tried the tutorials on the invisable man (it didnt work) and the displacement tutorial (but, it didnt work 🙁
    can ANYONE help me out here. what im doing is (or trying to do) i have a dragon walking very slow on the bottom layer and a fight screen on the top layer. now what i want is just the shape of the dragon to move behind the fight screen.
    i saw a plugin “freeform AE 3d displacemnet” but it cost more then i have (and i dont have much at all 🙂

    please help

    Matt Sonberg replied 20 years, 12 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Yoondo

    May 13, 2005 at 4:52 am

    Are you trying to put the dragon as if it’s viewed on the flight screen?

    If so, use the mask to cutout the flight screen and adjust the dragon underneath so that
    it falls in the boundry of the screen.

    Or, if your screen has some texture to it and you want to keep it, just put the dragon
    layer on top and mask it to match the screen.

    good luck

  • Roland R. kahlenberg

    May 13, 2005 at 6:33 am

    Have you had a look at Philip’ excellent COW Displacement Tutorial? Check it out at Displacement Mapping.

    HTH
    Roland Kahlenberg

    broadcastGEMs.com – the leader in customizable royalty-free animated backdrops

  • Matt Sonberg

    May 13, 2005 at 2:27 pm

    I have had some trouble creating a gradient from an image… is there anywhere that explains that process in detail? I would think it’s pretty simple, but I’ve never done it before.

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